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One thing I ponder when thinking about guilds, is that technically to re-socialise a game, it doesn't necessarily have to be happy things and all about sociable people. Perhaps being anti social could be considered social too? And by anti social I mean some people actually being enemies. I...

Not really. There are some minecraft servers like that, and some player run Neverwinter Nights modules and stuff like Ultima Online emulators which are sort of close. But no real games are that quite that bold. DayZ needs time to fester and then maybe some people in the games industry will...

There are some first person games which let you hold a key and it rotates the view around your character externally, so you can see your gear. But you can't actually play like that, it's just to admire yourself, then you go back to first person and keep playing.

Yea it's a good point about smoking. I was a heavy pot smoker in early EQ, so every big fight lead to a good long downtime which was my perfect opportunity to roll a joint and smoke it and then hurry back for the next fight. Hence me smoking about 4 joins an hour and doing myself no good I...

I like Hilsbury, a bit smaller than I hoped but still cool. But I love that entire zone. I enjoyed the Vampire Hunter quests from the camp to the south of the Manor. If you do all the quests you get invited to a secret chamber they have under one of the gravestones or something. And once you...

Or a willowisp because they required magic weapons which was unheard for at least 20 odd levels. Even in a good fight with a wasp or bat or whatever, where everything went your way, you would still usually end up totally spent, low on hp and low or completely out of mana. Then you had to sit for...

No way! Well... maybe a warrior but auto attack is all they had But all the classes I played (casters and melee dps) pretty much struggled to survive a fight with a level 1 even when they played well. If you just did auto attack it would beat you to death and you would have done about 10%...

I know I say this in every other post... but the strangest thing to me about the whole "EQ was super tedious" is that yeah I agree, it took tedium too far. But all the modern games there ZERO downtime. Mana barely even gets used in a fight and even when it does, it regens to full in like 5...

Wow. It sucks because I have a high level of every class...... except about 3 including ranger( Sounds pretty cool though, I'll try it.

It's just McDonalds of MMO's. It had cartoon graphics that meant it would run on little 9 year old kids dad's laptops and people whose household just had some old pentium for emails or whatever, they could all play WoW because it was so low tech. It also was made really well so it ran smooth...

Yeah it's a real shame. I also sold everything I had on p99 for gear on EQ Mac. Got a 1:3 ratio so I sold the guy a full set of not bad necro gear but got a full set of super high end tank gear in EQ Mac. I was pretty excited about it. Sucks to be me... Not that I would play p99 again anyway...

Can you just leave a ranger auto attacking? Currently I just use my sorc but I have to wait until the mob is half dead and then I unload with the sorc. Works just not very well. I loved my monk but he sucked in a group because he required too much input. Rogue seems the same kind of thing. Maybe...

I think it just sends commands but you could automate with that I guess. And yeah I've swapped a lot around too. Gave up on my Pally in the mid 30s because he just wasn't as good as my DK. And I've got rid of my Monk because he requires too much input, got a Psi instead which seems to be far...

Lol, fuck I hope I'm still alive when games are 520 gig!

P99 is messed up because it's not a natural server. First off, there are a bunch of people who farmed manastones on day 1 and got loads of the things and now control the entire market on the server with them. And there are 1 or 2 high level guilds (probably the same people) who control the high...

Hope karma will get them. The thing with the GM though is that they could have easily had a player run server. Just sign up some volunteers who act as 'guides' and they can weed out the few bad people, send screenshots or whatever to a real GM who once a week just IP bans people like that...

But if his knowledge only goes up to about 2001, that can't end well. I love EQ, will always have a special place in my heart for it. But would I want to play it all over again? Not really. I've already played it to death now, levelled every class to 50+, sometimes more than once. But the main...

At this point I just hope Brad is a real gamer. Because if he played games in the 80s and then came up with his own idea in the 90's and now just wants to relive that glory, it's not gonna work. Because as cool as EQ was, it's pretty damn dated by now. But someone who has played everything since...

But there is in the mmo business. There's EQ which is so hardcore it's obtuse and tedious and kicks people when they are down, and takes insane amounts of time to do anything. And then there is *everything else*, which is dumb, made for 9 year olds, hands you everything on a plate instantly, and...

FAQ - truth edition: Is EverQuest: Macintosh Edition being shut down? Yes, sorry but I ran this company in to the ground and now we can't even afford the $3.50 a month it requires to run the server. Why did you keep it open originally and now change your mind? I like thinking about...

No chance of it being saved again? For what its worth, I don't have a mac..... I only ever played it using the pc hack. And I played it because it's REAL EQ like the original games was, unlike EQ itself which is stupid, and unlike Vanguard which is a dumbed down version. It's the only EQ...

Wait arent u that guy who used to troll hell out of the EQ thread? And yet everything you said you want already existed 14 years ago in EQ. And people criticise the ole EQ loyalists, but really, they are just the ones who have tried both sides of the coin and know from experience which one is...

Lol for real? May as well be 3015.

Just copy EQ. No auto-group making tools, and certainly no teleport everyone to the dungeon crap. Slow down regen so mana efficiency becomes important again and gives people time to chat. Get rid of the solo quest grind to max level, people should group up and go somewhere good and kill shit...

What is this news you guys are talking about? I tried googling it but couldn't find anything. Can anyone please fill me in? I haven't played for over a month because I got burned out in the 50+ grind. I really want to go back and knuckle down and get through it but it's hard to find the motivation.

:/ Makes me hate that bitch GM even more. I also hated Doe but she is gone now. ooohh, thats cool. I tried to get isboxer working once but I couldn't get it to work. Will give it another shot. I enjoy 6 boxing but it would be way more fun if I could automate some stuff.

He could use the EQ Next model, send a copy of C++ to a million kids and have them make the game over Christmas and the summer holidays. That way if it sucks he can say, "well you made it!"

Damn I wish I could do that, only got one pc :/ There is guy in the EQ Mac thread who does a full AoE group using 3 PC's, he does such amazing stuff. I think he uses ISBoxer too. Maybe I should find an old laptop or something. I did something one time on my own PC and some jealous scumtwat...

I six box on one PC, just tabbing between each client. It works fine it's just really hard work and quite slow in the higher levels. Mobs have a huge amount of HP and tend to be in groups. A real group would mez one or two and nuke hell out of them one by one, but as a 6 box it's hard to do all...

That dawkins thing is comedy gold!

Thanks for sharing this. Any idea if you can design your own combat mechanics? I'll look in to this but can't watch an hour long movie at the moment. I spent a lot of time making Neverwinter Nights modules and made some good stuff in that. It was fairly easy to make a basic campaign with your...

I really wish The Secret World gave me a reason to play... just anything. I enjoyed the early days just questing. But there is no real progression, no levels, not really anything. And then later you do Nightmare Mode dungeons, get a bunch of purple shit and then that's pretty much it. You are...

I mostly play other types of games nowadays, but I occasionally play EQ Mac and Vanguard. I was having huge fun with EQ Mac and then I dinged 50 and all the fun ended like hitting a brick wall. I never realised before just how obnoxiously slow it was. It's not that I can't do it, because I did...

I just miss the feeling that you are in a world with a long challenging struggle ahead. Unlike today where you just feel you are in the flavour of the month MMO that you will blast through in 3 weeks and then be bored of. I don't miss the extreme tedium of EQ (hell levels etc), but I miss the...

EQ's graphics were top of the line when it was released. Don't understand why some people criticise it. There were a few weak elements but mostly it was better than anything I had seen before, and I played everything. Look up Quake on youtube and compare. I am more or less a Vanguard 'hater'...

Wait what, you thought all that stuff was shitty? Or that is what made it special? I don't get it. Personally I hated all that crap. It was stuff like that which chipped away at the enjoyment I was getting from other things and ultimately what made me quit the game forever. The 3 day camp in...

BTW I'm not completely dead inside! I do still enjoy some games. I have a few that I love and play regularly and a few more I play from time to time. But none of them are MMO's. For me I think the MMO thing has run its course. I wont play another one unless it's a change of direction. The genre...

I hope they save money on the graphics too. Just make it look 'ok' and save money for more important stuff - like making sure the gameplay is fun and the client is stable and all the worst bugs are fixed. But whatever, I think I am too old for games now anyway. I just have such a hard time...

Yeah it was a problem. Part of the problem is that Brad (or whoever on the team) were such insanely tight arsed about everything. For example, the world was gigantic but you had to run everywhere on foot. The first horse wasn't possible until about level 10 or so, but even that wasn't much...

It was quite different. There were only a few quests, the game worked like EQ so you would start and you would travel around exploring and killing mobs, and that's how you progressed. The problem was, the former WoW players they wanted to attract, noobs, and idiots of various types, all had no...